9:16 PM,
May 12, 2014

Pictured (l-r) are Northwest High School students Lucas Owens and Josh Endsley with Vanderbilt graduate student Kristin Engerer.

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Kara Furlong
Vanderbilt

Students from Northwest High School recently learned how to squeeze electricity from a blackberry.

During an April 24 educational outreach program sponsored by the Vanderbilt Institute of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (VINSE), the students learned to make solar cells out of blackberry juice and measure the electrical power produced by the juice.

Small groups of students from several Tennessee high schools participated in daylong field trips to the VINSE laboratories on the Vanderbilt campus during October 2013 and March, April and May 2014 to give the students hands-on ...